Ikkyvicky

I’ve noticed that people take unserious shows way too seriously. This drama was never meant to be that deep. The way some of you complain, you’d think you’ve never watched a K-drama before.

The SML doesn’t even come close to making the top 100 list of annoying second male leads. She’s a single woman, and he’s allowed to pursue her. That’s not a crime.
And speaking of tropes, let’s not act surprised. We’ve got the classic “blame everything on the temp hire with zero evidence” while everyone gossips loudly in the office. Then there’s the extreme filial piety storyline, where your parents could literally run you over and the message would still be “but they’re your parents.” This is standard K-drama material.

I also see people complaining that the female lead isn’t immediately throwing herself at the male lead. Just because he suddenly decided he’s in love with her doesn’t mean she has to move at the same speed. Feelings don’t work like that. No one is entitled to someone else’s love.

Omg the CEO is so suspicious to me. It sounded like Jung Hye came up with the idea of the app and him and the prosecutor created a system with the help of the cop to traffic vulnerable young men, women & minors. As for Min Seo she’s such an interesting character. based on the dates on the tomb stone I don’t know if she’s the daughter or not but she wants revenge. I wonder why she attacked the FL’s though was it to enrage them and make sure they don’t drop the case? or was it someone else. I hope she’s the one to kill the prosecutor if he ends up dying. I’m so glad that they let the police husband in on their investigation.

I just recently watched tht episode and I disagree completely. She had a fake business set up so she could drug, manipulate and sell young girls to rich old men. Her sad backstory doesn’t excuse the terrible crimes she committed. I wish the same exact fate to all predators and human traffickers.

wasn’t she startled cause he called her Gil Dong?

It’s not as nonsensical because you can’t even mention those two things in the same sentence. You have more complaints about cheating than you have of human trafficking and have been clogging up the comment section for 40 days and 40 nights. I don’t know if someone broke your heart and cheated on you and now you feel the need to trauma dump on us but consider us tapped out. You can continue this comment conversation on your own.

You’re seriously not okay for making that comparison, and then acting like you didn’t just equate rape with cheating. That’s not only offensive, it’s disturbing.

And honestly, if the cheating storyline upsets you this much, why are you still here commenting on every single episode? If it’s that triggering or frustrating, it might be healthier to just stop watching and move on to something you actually enjoy.

We will find out eventually but I think it’s because she wants to keep her mom safe. The dad is always three steos ahead of everyone. She is a student so she could also be afraid of her dad secrets coming to public and impacting her. However, she seems like her goal is to protect her mom.

She works extra hours cause she’s a intern and wants to move to full time employee. in case you forgot one of her dreams was to be a full time employee. When asked y’all can’t name a single time she was being neglectful to her nephew. Did she leave him on the side of the road or does she always have child care arranged? This is literally what working parents do. Again y’all keep saying this because she’s not throwing herself at the ML and because there’s a another man in the picture.

I totally forgot this was only 12 episodes, so when the confession happened I was like… wow, that came fast. But with a shorter drama, the pacing is obviously going to move quicker.

Now everyone’s obsessing over the weight of the FL and SML. Welcome to Korea, where beauty standards are extremely harsh and unforgiving. That’s the reality they’re working in. There’s no point in piling on when these actors already have to survive constant scrutiny and unrealistic expectations in their own industry. And honestly, reading some of these comments, some of you are just as judgmental as the society you’re criticizing.

People have been calling the FL selfish since episode one. But whenever someone asks what she’s actually done that’s so awful, no one can give a clear example. It’s just vibes and projection.

The way she’s being judged is exactly how society treats mothers who aren’t attached to their children 24/7. What do you want her to do? Quit her job and sit at home? Is she not allowed to have a personal life? She’s a young woman who lost her sister overnight and suddenly had the responsibility of raising her nephew. Of course she’s going to make mistakes. Of course she’s going to struggle to find balance. Even people who actively choose to have children mess up sometimes.

If we’re being honest, a lot of the hate feels less about her actions and more about the fact that she doesn’t fit into a very traditional, “domesticated” mold. Some of you don’t like seeing the ML doing a lot of the cleaning. Some of you are mad that she interacts with a man she previously liked instead of immediately throwing herself at the ML.

I would really love to see the ML and the Japanese actor team up again in something else. They have excellent chemistry and watching their brotherhood outside of human trafficking would be fun.

Spousal rape is actually very common and happens more often compared to the stranger in the dark alley. Even the prosecutor tried to rape the FL when she was his girlfriend. It’s mostly between people that already know each other. In this one I think he raped the wife first and she probably found out she was pregnant and he forced her to marry him. She filed a report and dropped the chargers. Either way the guy is a disgusting repeat offender and they need to get him away from the daughter and wife.

you are the one that made the comparison by saying at the end of this all the criminals will either be dead in prison but not the cheater. So the mentally ill person is you if you think any of those things can even be comparable.

If cheating is one of the main things the show keeps putting front and center, then yeah, people are going to talk about it. That’s natural. And when it’s written in such a familiar way, the “evil spouse” versus the “home-wrecking mistress” trope, of course viewers are going to have strong opinions. We’ve seen that dynamic a hundred times before, so people are going to dissect it.

But at the same time… this show is dark. Like, genuinely disturbing.

We’re watching a story about rape, the trafficking of minors, and corruption so deep that a prosecutor is allegedly using his power to sell children to powerful men. That’s not background noise, that’s horrifying. It’s heavy. It lingers.

So when someone says they’re able to just move past all of that and focus mainly on the cheating? I don’t know. That’s surprising to me. For a lot of us, the bigger picture is so unsettling that it’s hard to zoom in on the affair like it’s the main scandal. The infidelity almost feels small compared to everything else going on.

Some people might gravitate toward the cheating storyline because it’s more familiar, more personal, maybe easier to process. But for others, the rest of the plot is so dark and disturbing that it’s impossible not to see it as the real focus.

Yea I can’t blame her at all. However, I feel like there’s a bit more to her character. I’m hoping that she stole that laptop back for the lawyers. God knows they need all the help they can get. Even if she did it for other reasons she’s not evil she’s just a child that’s trying to survive.

in the beginning you had so many people claiming that the writers wanted us to think the FL’s were poweril and the music that was playing was trying to portray them as female icons etc… When in reality they are exactly as we said damaged, flawed, hot mess characters. for example why are the female leads so trusting? you are literally going up against a powerful network of predators that have infiltrated al sectors of society so every man, women and child that you come across should be met with immediate suspicion. not to mention their own personal trauma. Leaving that girl that sold a child to a network of pedos with all your critical information is insane. Going to met the wife that already betrayed you and thinking the husband wasn’t gonna find out immediately is insane. Why do you keep texting her? are you trying to get her killed? As for the IT CEO idk if we can trust another man at this point especially in light of him being an IT guy and we don’t know who built that app yet. Again I feel like she trusted him way to easily cause what does he truly want. I need the FL’s to be more like the detective husband. You can tell that his a detective cause how insightful his character is. in all his scenes he notices every little discrepancies and body languages. Now I need them to the same as lawyers. I knew it was only a matter of time before he found out. He seems like a nice man so I wish the best for him. as for the other cop oh he needs to go to hell. what a freak. also what is the prosecutor doing to his wife and daughter. It’s all so dark and creepy.

Because cheating is not criminal. He has the option of divorce and moving on with his life. Also are you people mentally well? You talking about all the criminals like it’s not rapist and pedos.

rapist dont change their ways. no one tries to brutally rape their girlfriend gets away with it and becomes a better person.

They say this about every female lead who so much as interacts with a man who isn’t the male lead. You’d think she was out clubbing or on some candlelit dinner date, when in reality she’s literally just… working. Having a conversation. Existing in the same space as another man.
The reaction is so disproportionate that it’s almost absurd. Any interaction gets twisted into something scandalous, while the actual context of the scene is completely ignored.

Believe it or not, this used to be a space where people could have thoughtful, nuanced conversations about the characters and the storyline. Now it feels overrun by people who filter every single scene through a rigid, gender-war lens.

For some reason, everything has to be black and white. There’s no room for flawed characters, moral gray areas, or layered storytelling. They expect everyone to react to every wrongdoing on screen with the exact same level of outrage, as if all offenses exist on the same moral plane.

I’m sorry, but I’m never going to respond to cheating the same way I respond to human trafficking or rape. That doesn’t mean I condone cheating. It means I understand that there are degrees of harm. When I just watched them essentially kill a teenage victim of sexual assault, I’m not going to center my outrage on an affair. Especially in light of real-world scandals involving trafficking and exploitation, the comparison feels even more jarring.

Some viewers are writing intense think pieces after only one or two episodes, making sweeping judgments about characters before the story has even unfolded. It’s bizarre. Complex stories require patience and critical thinking not snap reactions and moral absolutism.

I hate in movies when they hit the evil person in the head once and run. Please keep hitting them until we are sure they are died. Now we got a human trafficker on our hands 😤